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Zelensky Says Ukraine Received $76 Billion Out of $177 Billion From U.S.

Zelensky Says Ukraine Received $76 Billion Out of $177 Billion From U.S.

“I don’t know where those funds went.”

The Associated Press interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this weekend.

I skimmed the article and the AP left out an important part: Ukraine only received $76 billion out of the $177 billion approved by the U.S.

The AP even left it out of the “key points” article about the interview.

Thank you, Ukrainska Pravda for catching the quote in the recorded interview:

Quote: “When I hear – both in the past and even now – from the US that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions [of dollars] (177, to be precise, based on what Congress approved), as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you – we’ve received more than US$75 billion.

So, when people talk about US$177 billion or even US$200 billion, we’ve never received that. We’re talking about tangible things because this aid didn’t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about US$70 billion.

But when it’s said that Ukraine received US$200 billion to support the army during the war – that’s not true. I don’t know where all that money went. Perhaps it’s true on paper with hundreds of different programmes – I won’t argue, and we’re immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about US$76 billion. It’s significant aid, but it’s not US$200 billion.”

Former President Joe Biden’s administration allocated $175 billion for Ukraine since 2022.

In May, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) discovered the U.S. spent 70% of the money for Ukraine in America and on our forces.

Some of the money went to humanitarian programs. Zelensky hopes President Donald Trump audits the programs:

More details: Zelenskyy emphasised to the US the importance of maintaining veteran and healthcare programmes during wartime.

Quote: “There are also many other humanitarian programmes I’m uninformed about, except for knowing of their existence. Perhaps the US President’s administration will audit these programmes and find additional billions, but I don’t know where those funds went. When the war started, many Ukrainian organisations left the country, likely following signals from the US embassy. Probably, these various organisations were funded by different foundations.”

Me too, Zelensky. Me too.

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puhiawa | February 3, 2025 at 1:06 pm

Obviously an audit is in order. We have the Bills and the objectives. We know defense industry contractors. However as we have learned, Democrats frequently direct funds to captive NGOs, with a portion returned as political donations, and the remainder used to enrich the chosen and fund “progressive” policy objectives.


     
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    Ghostrider in reply to puhiawa. | February 3, 2025 at 2:25 pm

    There is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, with a population of about 9,400. This place is home to the National Security Agency, Central Security Service, United States Cyber Command, and Defense Information Systems Agency, located on the U.S. Army post-Fort George G. Meade.

    I want to assure President Zelensky that the good folks at Fort Meade will be able to tell us where the $100 billion went, who got the money, and where it was spent.


     
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    Danny in reply to puhiawa. | February 3, 2025 at 2:28 pm

    100% correct.

    Expect the “Ukrainian NGOs” with a couple of token Ukrainians if that to be pushing leftist agendas in Ukraine after the war and leftists to attack Ukraine for having a conservative religious culture when Russia withdraws.


       
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      CommoChief in reply to Danny. | February 3, 2025 at 4:43 pm

      Gonna be hard to do when Zelensky dismantled the Orthodox Church and threw clergy into jail…alongside his political opponents and non regime media.


         
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        Wim in reply to CommoChief. | February 4, 2025 at 9:15 pm

        He did not “dismantle” the Orthodox Church, but he closed some Russian-Orthodox churches locate in Ukraine, which were entirely on Russia’s side, even story weapons for them. Historically this should not be surprising because — except during Communism — the Orthodox church was entirely entwined with the Russian government.
        But to the best of my knowledge, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has not been bothered.


 
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slagothar | February 3, 2025 at 1:13 pm

Biden isn’t the only one who was taking a cut. Agree an audit is needed, but for the entire government.


 
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2smartforlibs | February 3, 2025 at 1:17 pm

Not that I believe him but if he is correct it just backs up the corruption from the country.


     
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    GWB in reply to 2smartforlibs. | February 3, 2025 at 1:35 pm

    The big question is how much disappeared where? How much didn’t yet get transferred? How much is in the pipeline*? How much took a cut before it left this country? How much took a cut after it got there? How much ended up in Paris haute coture boutiques?

    A whole bunch of that “help” went in cash to teachers, et al, too.

    (* This would be a classic grift. Complain to the new guy about how you haven’t seen everything you’ve ordered. You don’t mention the old guy had sent some that’s sitting in transfer stations somewhere or is in a container in the port, still packed. You convince the new guy to send you a new set of gear. Then, of course, you get both sets of gear, eventually.)


       
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      MK Ultra in reply to GWB. | February 3, 2025 at 11:06 pm

      The old cons still work, especially when everyone in the chain gets to wet his beak. Now I gotta find which of the hard drives has “The Sting” on it.


 
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Matt Apple | February 3, 2025 at 1:18 pm

Now that those funds are going to be audited he is getting out ahead of it. It is better to announce before the audit that they aren’t getting the numbers the media is reporting than wait until after the audit and try to explain the missing money. I have no doubt that a generous portion found its way back into the hands of the people here who worked the hardest to keep the money flowing.


 
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Peter Moss | February 3, 2025 at 1:23 pm

There was a *very good* reason why that brain dead ex-president’s staffers pardoned those that they did.

By the end of 2025 I predict that there will be indictments of some formerly prominent public figures that weren’t on Uncle Joe’s special list.


 
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irishgladiator63 | February 3, 2025 at 1:24 pm

Joe really should have pardoned himself.


     
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    TargaGTS in reply to irishgladiator63. | February 3, 2025 at 2:30 pm

    He didn’t have to. There is ZERO chance a federal judge would find Biden competent to stand trial. On his best day, he simply doesn’t have the cognitive wherewithal to credibly participate in his own defense, which is the standard that’s used.


       
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      CommoChief in reply to TargaGTS. | February 3, 2025 at 3:31 pm

      Maybe /Maybe not. That’s a big.can of worms to crack open. What was the onset date of his dementia diagnosis? What were.the first signs ‘officially’ recognized? By whom?. When? Who else in close proximity to Biden saw that? Who if anyone did they alert? What contemporaneous actions as POTUS are called into question? No BS testimony of ‘nobody saw anything unusual until the day after Trump was inaugurated’ without an accompanying perjury charge.


         
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        TargaGTS in reply to CommoChief. | February 3, 2025 at 4:22 pm

        While those are all probative questions that the public and historians should demand be answered (even without Biden being prosecuted), they’re also questions that really would only matter legally to Democrats and their allies. In the context of an actual criminal investigation/prosecution, none of those questions would matter to Joe Biden, his family or his lawyers. Ultimately, I’m not even sure if any of those questions would be/could be raised because they’re largely irrelevant to his current state of mind; how is mind is right now (and what it will be for the foreseeable future) is really the only thing that needs to be adjudicated. When he lost his marbles isn’t material, only IF his marbles are currently lost.


           
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          CommoChief in reply to TargaGTS. | February 3, 2025 at 4:54 pm

          I should think the date of diagnosis, the factors of behavior for the diagnosis and when those factors became apparent would be very relevant to competency. That’s assuming Biden doesn’t continue to insist he’s ‘fit as a fiddle’ and fully capable of serving a consecutive term if only he wasn’t pushed out of the race by Nancy Pelosi.


           
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          Milhouse in reply to TargaGTS. | February 4, 2025 at 8:14 am

          Chief, how would those dates be relevant? The only question before the court would be, is he able, right now, to assist in his defense? Not would he have been able to do so three or six months ago when he did the things for which he’s being charged. Nor even is he able for short bursts after a nap; but is he able for the length of a several-week trial starting today.


       
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      henrybowman in reply to TargaGTS. | February 4, 2025 at 10:53 pm

      “There is ZERO chance a federal judge would find Biden competent to stand trial.”
      No wonder Hollywood is signing him. He’ll never give them an Alec Baldwin problem.


     
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    LeftWingLock in reply to irishgladiator63. | February 4, 2025 at 9:30 am

    Trump is NEVER going to indict Biden. That is just not his modus operandi. Jill yes. Hunter yes. Joe never.


 
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BigRosieGreenbaum | February 3, 2025 at 1:35 pm

Yes, as noted, Biden should have pardoned himself.
Aside: let’s confiscate that wood floor!


 
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Lucifer Morningstar | February 3, 2025 at 1:48 pm

>>“I don’t know where those funds went.”<<

Yes, you do you pusillanimous little fraud. $76 Billion went to Ukraine and the other $101 Billion is sitting in your anonymous bank accounts across the European Union just waiting for you when you are finally removed from office.


 
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Olinser | February 3, 2025 at 2:21 pm

Exactly as I predicted from day 1.

Ukraine was nothing more than an excuse for insane graft behind idiotic slogans of PUTIN EVIL SLAVA UKRAINE.

At no point did anybody screaming that Putin was the greatest threat in decades and Ukraine was a bastion of freedom present any plan for victory other than SEND MORE MONEY.

Anybody that tried to demand we have some kind of actual visibility on how the money was being spent and whether it was working was called ‘Putin lover’, ‘Russia bot’, blah blah blah. Anybody saying we needed an actual plan other than SEND MONEY was attacked as ‘RUSSIA SHILL’ blah blah blah.

Now the rats are deserting the sinking ship.

We were right from day 1. This whole nonsense was just an excuse to go hog wild with graft and corruption.


 
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CommoChief | February 3, 2025 at 2:21 pm

As fast as.the amateurs in the Biden admin were shoveling taxpayer money out the door in the final months I suspect all sorts of irregularities will be found. Prosecute all of those officials who didn’t receive a get out jail free pardon. Vigorously, ruthlessly. No usual DC ‘mistakes were made’. Instead make an example of them that it is talked about to new govt hires 100 years from now as a cautionary tale.

We sent equipment, some of it older and jotted it down as if it was new. This allowed the US to restock with new stuff. (The new Bradley variant is a beast, by the way). All kinds of accounting gimmicks took place but much of the money went back to US defense contractors. Yes, a lot of it just disappears like any big government spending program. (Think stimulus, infrastructure, EV chargers, etc spending that just seems to do nothing)

They treat the taxpayers like their personal piggy banks and there is never an accounting. Even Obama and his “weatherproofing” program was a big fraud.

“I don’t know where those funds went”,…Joe knows

No money or weapons should be going to Ukraine from the USA.


 
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WestRock | February 3, 2025 at 5:37 pm

The moral of this story is we – The United States of America – shouldn’t be giving anything to any other country. Period.


 
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guyjones | February 3, 2025 at 5:49 pm

Let’s get the IRS opening a civil tax fraud investigation into the Biden crime family’s decades of ill-gotten and obscene racketeering windfalls, none of which they reported as income and paid federal (or, state taxes) on. Let’s find out how much back taxes, plus, interest, plus penalties, these greedy, lazy and entitled reprobates owe the federal treasury.


 
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henrybowman | February 3, 2025 at 10:30 pm

Phony ballots aren’t cheap.


 
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Voco Veritas | February 5, 2025 at 12:10 pm

We all know where it went. Just audit Bidump, Ovomit, & every member of congress and you will find a boatload of the money that was supposed to be for Ukraine but never made it.

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